List of British engineers

This is a historical list of British engineers.

List

 * John Allen (born 1928), engineer and plasma physicist
 * James Atkinson (1846–1914), inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine
 * George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic
 * William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery
 * Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.


 * Charles Baird (1766–1843), managed a company which built steam-powered machinery in Saint Petersburg, including Russia's first steamboat
 * Edward Barlow (1639–1719), inventor of the repeating clock
 * John Bell (1747–1798), inventor of various military and nautical devices, including a gyn and a petard
 * Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), inventor of the lawnmower
 * Jenny Body, aerospace engineer and former president of the Royal Aeronautical Society
 * Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press
 * James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts
 * Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway


 * Henry Chilver (1926–2012), expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge


 * Victoria Drummond (1894–1978), marine engineer who served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire.
 * Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (1892–1961), electrical engineer known for her work on designing DC motors and exciters and one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society.
 * Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), chief engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear


 * Holt Samuel Hallett (1841 – 11 November 1911), pioneer railway engineer in Burma
 * Caroline Haslett (1895–1957), electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain
 * Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.
 * Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall


 * Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi
 * Sue Ion (born 1955), expert advisor on the nuclear power industry


 * Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine


 * Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956), engineer and advocate for women's employment rights, was the founding president of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain.
 * Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines
 * Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines


 * Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986), pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman
 * Harry Ricardo (1885–1974), researcher and developer of early internal combustion engines
 * Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering
 * Dorothy Rowntree, first woman graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow and the first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK
 * Evelyn Roxburgh (1896–1973), first woman to gain a diploma in electrical engineering in Scotland.
 * Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990), inventor of the "Miss Shilling's orifice", a critical component that prevented engine stall in the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters.
 * Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), aviator and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering


 * Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), inventor of a high-powered steam engine


 * Claude Hamilton Verity (1880–1949), inventor of the Veritiphone, one of the earliest methods of synchronisation of sound and film.


 * Frank Whittle (1907–1996), credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine.